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TRACE GARRIBR.

N0. 539,533. Patented May 21, 1895.

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TRACE GARRIBR. l Y No. 539,533. Patented May 21,-1895. y i

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LEWIS E. MCOAHAN, OF LONG PINE, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO CHARLES R. GLOVER, OF SAME PLACE.

TRACE-CRRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,533, dated May 21, 1895.

Application filed April 19, 1893. Serial No. 471,055. (No model.) d

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS E. MCCAHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Long Pine, in the county of Brown and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TraceOarriers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.`

This invention has relation to an improvement in that class of trace carriers in which an elevated frame is employed, and the device is adapted for attachment to the back strap and hip straps of a harness, and it has for its object to improve such devices by facilitating the insertion of the cock eye and preventing thev same from being casually disconnected; Athe construction being such that the cock eye may be placed in the carrier without necessarily making the construction of the latter tall or high.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in whichi Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the cockeye in position and a part of a trace in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a view of a horse carrying a part of a harness with my improved device attached and showing a trace carried thereby.

Referring by letter to said drawings:-A, indicates my improved device, which comprises a base a, which may be either angular or round in cross section and of an elongated circular form in outline. Rising from the base is an elevated frame b, which is of a height as illustrated, and is composed of upright branches o, arranged in pairs at the opposite sides of the frame, and these corner or lateral uprights are connected by means of cross bars d, a slot e, being formed between the base frame and said cross bars for the passage of the hip straps.

B, indicates two longitudinally disposed bars which connect the uprights c, and these longitudinal top bars are arranged approximately parallel to each other, being connected about midway of their length by oblique bars f. Formed one on each outer side of these oblique cross bars, are slots g, which are also obliquely disposed, and open into'lateral slots h, which are horizontally disposed; a contracted passage e', being formed between the slots g, and h, by the rounded shoulders k, and l, which extend inwardly in opposite directions from the bars B. p

C, indicates a passage or way for the back 6o strap. This passage C, coincides or registers with the passage D, for the outlet of the back strap at the rear.

In applying the device to a harness, it is not necessary to employ buckles or other fasf' tening devices; the back strap being passed through the slots or ways o, and CZ, and the device adjusted thereon at the point where the hip straps are attached to the back strap. The hip straps are then passed, one through 7e each slot e, when the device will be secured to the harness in the position shown in Fig.

3 of the drawings, with one slot g, disposed on each side and in a convenient position to receive the cock eye. In attaching the trace, 7 5 the cock eye must be inserted first in the top oblique slot g, thence turned transversely within said slot and drawn into the contracted passage e', which is of a less Width than the reduced portion of the cock-eye after which the 8o movement of the cock eye must be reversed or the turning continued so as to make a half revolution from the time it is first entered into the oblique slot. The slot h, is of a less length than the slot g, and it will be seen that. while the cock eye may be free to rotate or otherwise move after being placed in the carrier, yet to take it out of the carrier it is necessary to make two separate partial turns before it can be withdrawn and the same is true 9o in inserting it.

These devices may be cheaply manufactured as they can be formed entire, and they require no special construction of parts or provision for the attachment.

I am Well aware that it is old to provide a trace carrier having an elevated frame, with two openings corresponding in shape to a cock eye when arranged edgewise and two other openings arranged at the lower ends of the roe rst named openings and disposed at right angles thereto, so that it is necessary in order to secure a cock-eye to the carrier to insert said cock-eye in one of the first named openings and then turn it half-Way around so as to seat it in one of the last named openings. I therefore make no claim to such construction, but

W'hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved trace carrier herein described consisting essentially of the base a, having the lateral, horizontally-disposed slots e, the transverse, horizontally-disposed slots C, and D, the uprights c, the two parallel bars B, connecting Ithe uprights c, at their upper ends,

Witnesses:

FRED COX, G. E. FORT. 

